Naomi Watts on Her 'deeply Disturbing' Film

[Matthew9818]

The point of this film was to make u want to leave the cinema, make u feel guilty for lusting blood! A family suffering and of course that immortal line ( you shouldn't forget the importance of entertainment) Hense why there,s little bloodshed and not that much on screen violence! First time I watched it I felt uneasy! Very few films have done that to me and I have seen quite a few Horror,s. However to make the point it tried to it was very outdated by the time they did the remake. The original

[rosaria752]

scusate bqualcuno sa dirmi il titolo vero di questo film

[DailyDirtDiaspora]

The family in this film IS INDEED Middle Class. kaash83, you obviously don't know what Middle Class means. It is the class immediately below the Aristocracy. Doctors and Lawyers are Middle Class. Upper Middle Class, perhaps, but still Middle Class.

[cutieheyhey1]

lol my name is Naomi haha

[Matthew9818]

hippotoast. Yeah because their completely different films arnt they! LOL

[Matthew9818]

metamorhises. Who gives a shit what Critics think? their there give people a balanced overall review to let u know if u wanna go c it! Nothing more!

[Church6397]

The dog part hurt me the most :(

[M23MATERAZZI]

i see the movie more as an experiment and that also makes fun of typical hollywood movies (the scene with the rewind) but there are 2 better movies from haneke about violence. bennys video and especially le pianiste.

[megalosauru]

This movie is a boring 2 hour lecture. Not scary, not disturbing, much less educating. No wonder it bombed.

[Methecos]

Can anyone tell me what the info is on the song playing through the first half of this video is? I'd like to find a high quality version.

[AFriendOfAxel]

The movie proves a point i guess...

But still i find the plot and everything rather stupid..And well... Very disturbing..

But i don't think it was made to entertain.. it was made to get people thinking.

I cant decide if i like it or not

[kobenhagen]

although i didn't particular like the movie itself, it's worth watching just to enjoy Naomi Watts and Michael Pitts ever wonderful performances

[EzyGlider]

Apparently, to Naomi Watts, having a 10 thousand square foot "vacation home" on a lake and a $90K Range Rover means you are "middle class." LMAO

[trainmogul]

you are correct about that maybe i should cut the lil prick some slack ,

[trainmogul]

is anyone else even disgusted with the family themselves after all they did not put up much resistance to these 2 intruders. the child with the gun made no attempt to make sure he had bullets i found the father weak and the mother also had ample times to grab a knife . i understand the plot of the movie is the intruders win but i found the victims deserving of al they got for not at least trying to fight. i wonder just how many people out there would just stand helplessly

[Supenmanu]

@trainmogul: duh... in U.S. Horror movies they never do... that's the whole point.

[metalhead1108]

@trainmogul you expect a 10 year old, how ever old he is, under that kind of pressure, to make sure bullets are in the gun?

[blank21121]

@trainmogul i so agree

[Flea817]

Critics said most of my favorite movies suck, and most of the movies they say were masterpieces I found to be boring.

And I didn't start reading reviews until after I'd seen a fuckload of movies.

[MrsChasen91]

the family obviously didn't deserve such torture. yikes, this was one of the most disturbing film i ever seen!!! great work for a film though

[lolifax]

Looks like a remake of clockwork orange, if you ask me...

[delelta]

are they friends or are they brothers? im confused? they seem so close like me and my brother and they somewhat look alike but then at one pat he was talking about his parents and sayying they were white trash

[vAmpyr616]

@delelta nobody knows. they changed their story so much you cant take anything they say to be true. thats whats more creepy, they can be anyone, bored wealthy and educated, or poor uneducated and restless

[megaswenson]

This, of course, is not what home invaders look like, or how they act. Plenty of the real ones are living in the Hamptons, now, & if they haven't used the film as a template for their own home invasions, they will. Low IQ people need someone like Movie high-IQ people to 'ideate' for them. This film provides more than adequate 'ideation',

Even the motivation is provided & glorified):"entertainment".

Filmed in Southampton, showing us as helpless, easy targets...thanks a LOT.

[Kapryagos]

@megaswenson

Funny Games does not glorify the motivation of intruding and torturing -- it rather is meant to "deglorify" movie-violence in general.

[megaswenson]

@Kapryagos Unfortunately 'intent', and 'consequences' seldom equate.

[TheConciseStatement]

But the characters are well-to-do and middle class. They have a big holiday home, expensive golf clubs and a boat, but they're not millionaires. You couldn't possibly call them working or upper class.

[AfroN1nj4]

that was the most boring movie ever goddammit! it was so pointless what a waste of fucking time! I mean the whole movie I was trying to think of theories and was thinking there had to be a great shock ending. but no what a piece of shit movie man im pissed cuz I wasted 2 hours on this shit.

[SIngli6]

"The life of the wife is ended by the knife"

- Stewie Griffin

[Valkonnen]

Everyone who works in movies and has made money is so jaded right? That's why she says "Middle Class" ? You know there is "Upper middle class" too and she mentions that they are well to do...

I love how you judge and know nothing about her....Let me fill you in:

Naomi Watts came to the U.S. to follow her dream of being an actor.Having no luck at it, and being evicted from her small apartment ...She got the part in "Mulholland Drive" and her life was changed..Jealosy does funny things to people.

[iheartvnz]

haha that kid was in thunderbirds :)

[fastmandan88]

i love how she chooses to work in the most random 'artsy' movies like mulholland drive and this movie and i heart huckabees. great she didnt choose movies similar to nicole kidman, the other famous aussie...

[LoopyLamp69]

I hated that one scene, when the boy is dead on the floor, and the women is sittin gthere. The scene goes on forever! But the movie was great!

[Methecos]

@LoopyLamp69 Right? I felt the movie lost way too much steam there. I lose a lot of interest in it every time that I reach that scene.

[jahshoverstand]

Only a movie star would say the words "middle class' and 'their summer home" in the same breath.

[darkreign16]

Lol yeah, the characters are NOT middle class, GOOD LORD lol.

[eirikwegga]

@jahshoverstand don't know what things are like in the states but here in Norway having a summer home is perfectly normal, regardless of "class"

[ElleToInterzone]

Um...

[INITIALSJE]

You know that this an American rendition of an older German movie, right?

[nighthawk41]

I never really thought about the message of the movie that much. That kind of ruins it for me to be honest. I just loved the movie because it was one of the most disturbing, and mind-breaking horror films I've seen in a while.

[lovesGenet]

Yes ,the child is killed because that's one of the conventions u MUST not break in an entertainment..Haneke requires the viewer to really think and on several levels. what is frightening is he shows us a world we are very USED TO LIVING IN.

Senseless meaningless violence is the symbol of the 20th centuryCamps to Rwanda,UgandaManchuria everywhere everday people are comitting atrocities.Read wht people have written here.The language itselfhasbecome a bludgeoning instrument.Kick ass and sucks.

[YouDidntdoAnything]

"you really shouldn't have done that anne."

[RYNO2511]

this was a great movie, but mostly because of it's realism. It was so disturbing, and the ending shocked me, because, well, it's more realistic than most movies of the genre.

[thimoneus]

I would say that, but the time rewind thing killed the possibility. That was a ridiculous moment that suddenly gave the movie science fiction status.

[Zkrudriverz]

Saw it yesterday! Awesome movie... but i found it very very fucked up that they killed the child! no matter how fucked up the movie is supposed to be, U DONT KILL A FUCKING CHILD! not even in a movie!

[JeanCocteau777]

Oh man did you miss the point...

[symantecghost]

Michael Haneke always makes masterpieces,mostly "deeply disturbing" movies like this one but most of them have a pretty good point or message.

[faqyaself]

i thought those kilers were a couple of homos

[ellarcoltrane]

middle class?

[wikiporno]

This movie is one of the few truely frightening movies I've seen. The lack of the fourth wall makes it so much worse.

[Shamrock956]

this movie kicked ass michael pitt and the other guy were amazing as those psychopaths

[RalphyX]

I recently slit one of my wrists and I found it to be a much more enlightening and insightful experience than this movie.

[TrollNumber5403]

You might want to see somebody about that. Even if you're joking lol

[squillysk8]

and its cool cus naomi watts has a major camel toe at one part X

[squillysk8]

this is the most badass movie evverrrrrrrr!!!!

[septip123]

SPOILER ALERT:

any time you have a movie where a dog or a kid gets killed, the villan's evilness is ramped up.

[septip123]

it's like patrick batemen from American Psycho. There is no beginning, middle, end. There is only this violent character. His graphic violent acts are never explained.

[kyavery]

i love this movie.. michael pitt and brady corbet did wonderful in it! i tooootally believed it!

[lisaedelsteinishot]

CHEESY ass MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!

[hopkins4545]

There's nothing mysterious or great about this movie. It's just violent.

[itakethesquare]

Amazing movie. I liked it more than Elephant.

[mantooth3245]

Hands down fav movie of the last 2 years!!

Original and entertaining!

[Snappingeel67]

This movie is quite ticklish!

[paulinefranzen]

looks amazeballs! wanna see it sooo bad

[astonlester]

do you want some pudding

[StormyLoveHypothesis]

"thi movie did suck, read any educated critic"

Who cares what other people think about the movie? You're supposed to watch the movie and form your own opinion about it.

I thought this was a great film.

[seinfeld120]

no kidding, ask any uneduated critic. its not a matter of education as to whether a movie is good or not. you dont study on how to judge how good a movie is. thats like saying ask educated people on whether a song is good or not.

[crapidious]

I thought it was a good, thought-provoking film too.A lot of critics disliked this film because Haneke berated them at a screening at cannes for staying till the end (perversely, he`d told the critics that he agreed with those that had, in disgust walked out early) But you`re right, of course. Even Haneke himself says that he enjoys the fact that different people will come away with different interpretations of his films.

But to not watch a film because a critic says "it sucks" is ridiculous!

[johng317]

I have more patience in sitting thru tense and emotional movies than most guys, but the long, agonizingly drawn out silent scenes after the killings just are too much. Nothing happens, in words, deeds nor actions....nothing. And the way the protagonist (Naomi Watts) is expected to survive and perhaps elude her captors, but so "matter of factly" is tossed overboard, bound and gagged is an insult.

[molcoo]

Well, if Funny Games came off as an "insult" to you, then I guess it achieved it's goal.

[TristanDenisApps]

yeah the silent scenes after violence are showing what almost no other movies the portray violence show, aftermath.

[grnt12]

.........don't expect a happy ending

[kaash83]

First I just wanna say that I thought the movie was brilliant. It was sad and disturbing for sure, but the way it was shown on screen was a work of genius. The acting was great as well. A movie doesn't need to have bloody and torture scenes in order to freak you out. This movie stayed true to its promise of disturbing the audience with a very realistic type of event that could happen to anyone. I love how Watts describe the family as "middle-class,"- a glimpse of how rich celebrities are in real

[FingerFramer]

@kaash83 middle class is thought as something very different in different countries. In America, the word middle-class means something quite different than in Australia or UK.

[kaash83]

@FingerFramer You completely missed my point. I agree with what you said but it was totally irrelevant to what I said.

[FingerFramer]

@kaash83 I don't really see how

[nkobtopenworld]

Not seen this film. Is it worse than 'Eden Lake'?

[ManhattanVannah7]

why the fuck did u choose to be in this movie

[XxCole15xX]

she chose to be in it because the movie is brilliant and not like anything else ... thats why =D x

[EclecticNerd]

That movie was so good, it gave me nightmares for days. In fact I'm still fixated on it! (hence watching this) It'll kick you in the soul. :D

[Thashining]

People are we that shallow. This culture glorifies violence. Now this movie showed absolutely no violence at all and everyone is saying how sick it is. Now think about that for a second.

[freakyAbbey2k7]

love this film haha

[Remus0387]

Michael Haneke's film wants people to be disgusted, shocked, angry about the film because it about saying "you like when the violence is an has no consequences, but do like it when random brutality is done for no reason at all but for your perverse entertainment". It does make people feel guilty about all the sanitized and commercial violence in movies, but i think understanding why the movie is the way it is makes you more appreciative of it or understand it better.

[bally28]

what he's also trying to say is...how THICK ppl are...letting assholes in to your house...so unreal.

[sureseg]

not exactly unreal. People do it everyday. Let someone unsuspecting use there phone, borrow sugar, eggs, and other things. Its like hes saying any seemingly normal situation could go terribly wrong

[bally28]

true..not everyone is bad..

[Thashining]

People do it all the time. You know how many home invasion robberies there are in LA.

[bally28]

i dont know much..from england.

[Thashining]

England is scary.

[musicizgood]

like "omgz the remote scene lawlz why was he using a magic remote lawlz like i hated that part it was so unrealistic zomg"

[musicizgood]

the people who didn't like this film are morons who just didn't understand it

[metamorphises]

thi movie did suck, read any educated critic

[ClownsFavorite]

I that this movie was terrible.

They had like a 15 minute scene of crying and getting her husband up.

The kid had a chance to escape but instead went back to the house.

And the crap music.

And the annoying kids.

And the bad ending.

It was so bad you didn't even find out why they did it all.

[jimothy2jim2]

actually there motive is simple nd i love it.

You ready:

Becuse they can

[BillTheMagicalTeddyB]

Actually the reason they did it is simpler then because they could. HaHa The reason they did it was because you wanted them to. You see they were simply entertainers. Catering to those who watch these horror movies. It was raw. Other movies take you away from all the crying. Other movies take you away from the pain left after someone days. Other movies protect the children. Other movies leave hope. This movie took it away. With the rewind scene and all. And all the killing. It was to entertain u

[BillTheMagicalTeddyB]

LMAO Correction *dies

[GetTimmyOut84]

exactly. that's why paul would talk to the audience. it's a "horror" movie that's satirical of other horror movies and horror fans.

[TristanDenisApps]

First; "I that this movie was terrible" I that your grammar is terrible.

That scene is showing the stark realism of violence an the consequences.

The reson that you dont find out why they did it is the entire point of the movie, the characters are vessles for showing how we accept violence, thus they dont have commonly identified human morals, showing the audience for immoral violence is.... I have so much more to say but so little space :/

[Enzempiro]

lol.

[buffyfaan]

I've never noticed that she's got a brittish accent..

[rahelz]

its australian

[buffyfaan]

yeah yeah whatever, but I think it's little of both

[lazza7]

I really don't get why they had to do a remake shot by shot.

It just proves american people can't accept that a good movie can come from abroad.

[BobHatesYourCamera]

It was remade by the same director as the original. So evidently, the director can't accept his own work?

[RoboTronSonneuse]

i second you on that. BOB!

[justinbaily]

The acting SUCKED in the new one! The original had really good actors playing the two guys. Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet need some acting classes!

[Lildrummerboy50]

i thought they were really good

[xXSkimExileXx]

no way!

they did a great job

[AcidRooster]

they did exceptionally well

[mavallarino]

I agree. I saw the original when I was studying German a few years ago and the original is much better... why did they remake it, Americans don't like ready subtitles?

[EmMcFly]

i loved how they played the roles... specially Michael Pitt, he was awesome.

[jinwooolee]

the ones on the american one arent too bad.

but two actors on the german film were pretty damn good

[Felixweirdalfan]

I actually prefer the German version of the movie. The American one is a little too "plastic" in a way. The German one feels a bit more raw. I like how the American one is a frame by frame copy of the original because making it another way wouldn't really work. Funny games isn't funny as the title suggests and is really meant to ask the audience "Do you really like watching this". The fourth wall gets broken in the movie and I think it just speaks better to the audience that way.

[AcidRooster]

i agree, the original version had more breaking the fourth wall stuff that contributed to the idea of the film much better, explaining the pointlessness of it all

[thimoneus]

No, those two guys did a phenomenal job at making me intensely hate their fuckface characters. I honestly have never hated any two characters more than theirs. The day after I saw the movie, I was wishing their characters were real people so I could kill them. They absolutely kicked ass at playing those psychopaths.

[mensahcarrelle]

The movie is absolutely amazing!!!As great as the original (1997).Naomi's performance was absolutely breathtaking!!!

[rockmaniac3000]

i love naomi.....

[DonFarshido]

I'm so disappointed because I knew no one could play that part as good as her, in a film I deeply hate. She has such a rare authenticity under hollywood actresses that I'm sure watching the American version will be similarly intense.

Still, David Lynchs "Mulholland Drive" says so much more about everything Funny Games wants to say, and it does that by believing in its audience, even when knowing that we hunger to see nasty stuff on screen.

[briansmartini]

I love Naomi so much, she's excellent in everything she does. She was such a great Diane in Mulholland Dr. (a movie I love) and pulled off a heartbreakingly raw performance in this (a movie i hate, though i did buy the awesome poster)

[darkjedi8]

i love naomi so much, not that any of you care.

[TheConciseStatement]

I care. I feel amibivalent about the film - well made, engrossing, and yet hypocritical given that the suspense comes from the sadism as per an actual exploitation film.

As expected, can't fault Naomi in it though, who is much better than the limited talents of her limelight-hogging mate Nicole Kidman.

[AlexIsUber]

original scared me to death that shit was sick

[ladymanson1]

Love this movie as much as the original - the acting is fantastic.

[oldhacks]

lame

[gareof]

gee what an original idea - hollywood writers need to go on strike to get some hollywood writers that will do something ORIGINAL for a change..but seriously, i saw this simpsons episode one time that had the same idea..homer, marge, bart, lisa & maggie, were kept in chains by peter,stewie,brian & meg..their characters were repeatedly erased or colored differently & sometimes even given different voices when brian did the audio..the simpsons were never again the same altho you can't tell it on tv